FuturICTHU

Exploring and Managing our Future

FuturICT

FuturICT is at heart of a revolutionary
21st Century science, which will use and develop information
and communication technologies (ICT) to create a decision
support system, combining data with models in order to solve
the grand challenges humanity is facing.

FuturICT will lift our knowledge of social and economic
systems to a new level of understanding, enabling us to
discover promising paths towards a sustainable future.

The FuturICT flagship proposal intends to unify hundreds
of the best scientists in Europe in a 10 year 1 billion EUR
program to explore social life on earth and everything it
relates to. The FuturICT flagship proposal will produce
historic breakthroughs and provide powerful new ways to
manage challenges that make the modern world so difficult to
predict, including the financial crisis. Here is the
official ranking and description of all EU flagship pilots,
and here you can find out more about FuturICT.

FuturICT Hungary Hub

The goal of sciences has always been twofold: understand the world
around us and contribute to the development of mankind, improve the quality
of the life. As human society is getting more and more complex, new problems
and opportunities are arising as consequences of globalization, technological,
demographic and environmental changes. To combat these challenges we have to
unite the forces of many disciplines and reach new scientific breakthroughs,
address the techno-socio-economic challenges in a common multidisciplinary framework.
Hungary has a long tradition of excellence in various
fields of sciences and a strong commitment to participate in
the FuturICT effort.

The project

Today, we know more about the universe than about our
society. It's time to use the power of information to explore
social and economic life on Earth and discover options for a
sustainable future. Together, we can manage the challenges of
the 21st century, combining the best of all knowledge.

The FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator is a previously unseen
multidisciplinary international scientific endeavour with focus
on techno-socio-economic-environmental systems.